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The Green Gables Restaurant at New Milford was the venue for a formal Paul Harris Fellow award presentation during a regular meeting of the New Milford Area Rotary on October 7, 2026. Club member Jennifer Allen was presented with her first Paul Harris Fellow award in recognition of her multi-year contributions to the New Milford Area Rotary and its variety of community-based programs. In particular, was this year’s Mid-Summer Fair, the first since a seven-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.
Pictured (l-r) are: David Palmer, President New Milford Area Rotary; Jennifer Allen, Owner/Operator Green Gables Restaurant.
The Paul Harris Fellow recognition is named for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary with three business associates in Chicago in 1905. The Paul Harris Fellow presentation was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for substantial contributions to the humanitarian and educational programs of The Rotary Foundation. Those programs include an array of community service projects that save and invigorate the lives of people in one’s community and world and enhance international friendship and understanding. Foundation programs provide educational opportunities, food, potable water, health care, immunizations, and shelter for millions of people. These activities are funded, implemented, and facilitated by Rotarians and Rotary clubs around the globe. Jennifer resides in New Milford and is the owner/operator of Green Gables Restaurant with her husband Chris.
The New Milord Area Rotary currently consists of thirty-five members actively serving the community and world and welcomes new membership. Contact information can be found at: newmilfordparotary@gmail.com.
On September 12, 2026, the Susquehanna County Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution were pleased to welcome Carol Ullo from Bradford County Quilts of Valor for a quilt presentation to local veteran Jim Eddy. The Daughters hosted a reception for Jim, his wife, Rita; grandson, Steve; granddaughter-in-law and chapter member, Wendy; and great-granddaughters, Katie, Bridget and Lizzy.
A pair of proposed ordinances that would regulate the establishment, operation and decommissioning of large data centers and solar farms in Harford Township, and that have been discussed for several months, have been put on the back burner for now. They weren’t even on the agenda for the Supervisors’ October meeting on the 20th.
That doesn’t mean that the discussion has ended. Far from it. When the subject came up – about data centers; solar farms, which originally got the attention of township supervisors around the county, do not appear to be of much concern locally – it occasioned comment from several people in attendance. One of them, one Kyle Devlin, Democrat challenger in the election 2 weeks hence for Jonathan Fritz’s seat representing the 111th district in the state legislature, suggested that such an ordinance might conflict unfavorably with a similar ordinance adopted by the Susquehanna County Commissioners. Supervisor Dustin Walker recognized the potential problem. He said that he had spoken with Commissioner Alan Hall, who recommended that the township send along any changes that might be incorporated into the county ordinance.
In other matters:
The next public meeting of the Harford Township Supervisors is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, 2026. At that time the Supervisors are expected to offer a budget proposal for 2027. All meetings take place at the Township office on Route 547.